FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 2024: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight women directors selected to take part in the 2024 spring / summer session of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM). Presented in collaboration with GEMFest (formerly Vancouver International Women in Film Festival) and Toronto’s Female Eye Film Festival with major [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 2023 (Vancouver BC) For the first time since the start of the pandemic, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) will present an in-person Industry Immersion at the Whistler Film Festival through a director-focused sponsorship provided by Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada. From BC: Amy Bohigian, Impact Doc Award winner (Only In Nelson) is developing [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 2023: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight women directors selected to take part in the 2023 spring / summer session of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM). Presented in collaboration Vancouver International Women in Film Festival and Toronto’s Female Eye Film Festival with major support from Telefilm [...]
CBC Films renews WIDC commitment for 2021 in support of underrepresented voices FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – December 18, 2020 (Vancouver BC): Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are delighted to announce that Vancouver-based filmmaker Kim Albright is the 2020 winner of two major WIDC awards: the CBC Films WIDC Talent Development Award worth $10,000 cash, and the WIDC [...]
Telus Optik Local Supports Web Series Roundtable at WIDC in Whistler As announced in November 2015, during WIDC Story & Leadership program at the 2015 Whistler Film Festival, Telus Optik Local sponsored a special web series roundtable for this year's eight women directors. Telus also supported a Director's Chair scholarship for a BC or Alberta-based director developing a web series [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October, 2015 – Vancouver BC: Eight women directors from across Canada have been selected to attend the 20th annual session of Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC), which includes the pilot program, WIDC Story & Leadership. Over the coming months this top-notch group of content creators will develop their feature films and web [...]
As a special add-on offering to the Female Eye Film Festival, WIDC presents an insider information session: Demystifying Web Series with the Independent Production Fund’s award-winning CEO, Andra Sheffer. Learn about web series development; best practices; program offerings, guidelines and project selection process. Facilitated by WIDC producer, Carol Whiteman, this particular WIDC session is open to the public and will [...]